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<td class="v">7:1</td>
<td>My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.</td>
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<td class="v">7:2</td>
<td>Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.</td>
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<td class="v">7:3</td>
<td>Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.</td>
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<td class="v">7:4</td>
<td>Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:</td>
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<td class="v">7:5</td>
<td>That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.</td>
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<td class="v">7:6</td>
<td>For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,</td>
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<td class="v">7:7</td>
<td>And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,</td>
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<td class="v">7:8</td>
<td>Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,</td>
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<td class="v">7:9</td>
<td>In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:</td>
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<td class="v">7:10</td>
<td>And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.</td>
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<td class="v">7:11</td>
<td>(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:</td>
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<td class="v">7:12</td>
<td>Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)</td>
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<td class="v">7:13</td>
<td>So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,</td>
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<td class="v">7:14</td>
<td>I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.</td>
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<td class="v">7:15</td>
<td>Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.</td>
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<td class="v">7:16</td>
<td>I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.</td>
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<td class="v">7:17</td>
<td>I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.</td>
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<td class="v">7:18</td>
<td>Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.</td>
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<td class="v">7:19</td>
<td>For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:</td>
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<td class="v">7:20</td>
<td>He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.</td>
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<td class="v">7:21</td>
<td>With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.</td>
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<td class="v">7:22</td>
<td>He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;</td>
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<td class="v">7:23</td>
<td>Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.</td>
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<td class="v">7:24</td>
<td>Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.</td>
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<td class="v">7:25</td>
<td>Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.</td>
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<td class="v">7:26</td>
<td>For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.</td>
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<td class="v">7:27</td>
<td>Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.</td>
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